Amanda Datnow Associate Director Center on Educational Governance Associate Professor Rossier School of Education University of Southern California

Dr. Datnow is an Associate Professor of Education at the USC Rossier School of Education. She is also the faculty chair of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education Policy and the Associate Director of the Center on Educational Governance. She was formerly a faculty member at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the politics and policies of school reform, particularly with regard to the professional lives of educators and issues of equity. Sociological perspectives inform her research on these topics, and her research methods are mostly qualitative. She has conducted prior research studies on comprehensive school reform and on the intersection of gender and educational reform. She is currently conducting a study of data driven decision making in four school systems. Recent books include Integrating Educational Systems for Successful Reform in Diverse Contexts (2006, Cambridge University Press) and the co-edited International Handbook of Educational Policy (2005, Springer). She is on the editorial boards of several journals including School Effectiveness and School Improvement and the Journal of Educational Change.

E-mail: datnow@usc.edu